Goddard Space Flight Center

Images by NASA's Curiosity rover may hold clues about Martian dust storms

With NASA engineers yet to make contact with the Opportunity Mars rover, scientists hope to learn about Martian dust storms from Curiosity probe's images

NASA installs an instrument called TSIS-1 on ISS to measure Sun's incoming energy

TSIS-1 studies the total amount of light energy emitted by the Sun using the Total Irradiance Monitor, one of two sensors onboard.

NASA plans to launch SuperTIGER, a balloon-borne instrument, to study rare cosmic ray particles

With SuperTIGER, researchers are looking for the rarest of the rare, so-called ultra-heavy cosmic ray nuclei beyond iron, from cobalt to barium.

NASA researchers find that the WASP-18b exoplanet has a toxic stratosphere devoid of water

The planet, which is around 325 light years away from the Earth was being observed as part of a survey to identify exoplanets with stratospheres.

NASA's MAVEN detects invisible 'magnetic tail' around Mars; could be destroying Martian atmosphere

While the field around Mars is invisible to the naked eye, it is said to have taken the form of a rotating tail one that had been formed over time because of the solar winds that have been stripping the planet of its atmosphere, allowing gases to escape into space.

OSIRIS-REx, NASA's asteroid hunting spacecraft flew past the Earth, coming within 17,237 km of Antarctica

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is currently on a seven-year journey to rendezvous with, study, and return a sample of Bennu to Earth. This sample of a primitive asteroid will help scientists understand the formation of our solar system more than 4.5 billion years ago.

Research shows that Mercury's surface may have more ice than previously thought

The findings suggest that some of Mercury's craters permanently shadowed from the Sun's blistering rays could have frozen water.

NASA study shows the Martian crust has lower density than previously thought, and is relatively porous

Mars's crust has been considered at least as dense as Earth's oceanic crust, which is about 2,900 kgs per metre cubed.

Nasa releases "Black Marble" maps, a series of images of the Earth at night

Nasa is on the verge of providing daily, views of Earth at night, and are targeting the release of such data to the science community later this year.

Nasa's ICESat-2 to have on board a stopwatch that can measure a fraction of a billionth of a second

With its incredibly precise time measurements, scientists can calculate the precise height measurements of sea ice, glaciers, and forests.